BY LENORE SKENAZY | What if you could rent a place to store a giant pile of your stuff in New York City for free? The bad news is you can. If you own a car, you can park it on the street in many neighborhoods without paying a cent. All you have to do read more here »

Rich buying the Hudson To The Editor: Re “Pier55 project still afloat as Corps modifies permit” (news article, June 22): People in the immediate community around where the Pier55 might be built were never consulted about it. This plan was created through secret meetings and West Villagers close to the proposed site were not invited. read more here »

BY MICHELE HERMAN | I recently went to the annual meeting of the Meatpacking Business Improvement District. I’ve always had an uneasy feeling about the extra-governmental taxing entities known as BIDs and I figured I should learn more about this one, formed in 2014 so close to my West Village home. I also went in solidarity read more here »

BY SHARON WOOLUMS | Four years ago, I walked out of the Village Independent Democratic candidates’ endorsement meeting in disbelief. Greenwich Village was being destroyed by rampant real estate speculation. Mom-and-pop stores’ faced closures. There were ridiculous rents, lost jobs, skyrocketing prices. The worlds’ most unique community was turning into an anti-art shopping mall. Yet, read more here »

Yuuge Trump Tower reveal To The Editor: Re “One word at a time… ‘Taking’ Trump Tower” (news article, June 15): Thanks for exposing this public space right under the nose of the Dick-Tater Tot. We will resist and rejoice under the golden towers of greed. See all you Purr Sistas there. Sara Jones What we read more here »

BY TIM GAY | A year ago, who would have predicted that virtually all references and public information about gays and lesbians would be erased from every federal agency Web site? Check out Health & Human Services. Search “L.G.B.T. Health” and you get “Page Not Found, We’re sorry, but there is no page that matches read more here »

BY SCOTT R. AXELROD | More than 200 senior citizens gathered at New York University’s Kimmel Center, on Washington Square South, for some hearty health advice, plus a light lunch, at the sixth annual Take Charge of Your Health Today! free community health forum and expo on June 7. The event was co-sponsored by the read more here »

BY BRAD HOYLMAN | The market has no morals. A better example of this maxim could not be found than on our local avenues and side streets, where independent businesses are falling like dominos, forced out because of rising rents. Once they’re gone, these spaces might be filled by a national chain — maybe a read more here »

BY COREY JOHNSON | It’s another legislative session in Albany, and once again State Senate Republicans are holding a key New York City issue hostage in order to extract concessions: mayoral control of New York City’s schools. Let’s put aside the obvious question of why legislators who represent districts hundreds of miles away from here read more here »